Oren walked with excitement to his next class, he had picked a shadow assassin as his rogue class study even though he was a mage type fighter. Oren walked into the class. It was almost filled. He took his seat, then the man who had been sitting on the teacher's desk stood up and smiled. He loomed very young and was very handsome with brown hair and eyes, he wore the same outfit as the other teacher.
"I'm your teacher, Derek, and I'll be your teacher for this whole semester on shadow assassination. There are many things the strongest shadow assassin can completely disguise in broad daylight. But, the first thing we will deal with, is an introduction." He said, sitting on the desk after making his last statement.
Everyone briefly introduced themselves, then he stood up again.
"The next order of business is picking your weapon of choice, picking up the weapon most compatible to you. If you look to your left, there is a weapon's vault and pick any weapon of your choice" Derek said, then the wall was replaced with a weapon's vault. Everyone stood up, looking for the weapon that suited them, but Oren had only one weapon on his mind.
"Retractable scythe" Oren said, a wide smile appeared on his face as he picked the scythe and returned to his seat with an achieved smile.
" First, we will go to the training ground and test your ability with your respective weapon. Let's go" Derek said, signifying for the entire class to follow him, and they did, they arrived at the training ground. One by one, all of you will attack me. If you manage to move me from the spot I'm standing now with your attack, you win 500 points" He said, they each walked up to him. He said a few words to each person before the session. It was final Oren's turn, and he walked up to him, he pressed the button on the scythe, and it extended to about six feet in height.
"It is a pretty interesting choice to use a scythe for many reasons. It takes so long to master, and at your age it will be a major disadvantage. But, seeing how quick you picked it, your mind as already been made up." Derek said, Oren nodded his head and got into a fighting stance and charged towards Derek, swinging the scythe wildly.
"You are pretty strong the size doesn't to bother you, but you are sloppy and the most important thing about using the scythe the versatility," Derek said, while countering every single move Oren threw at him with his bare hands. Oren appeared behind Derek swinging his scythe with all his strength. Derek scoffed. He then emerged from Oren's shadow, Oren managed to escape, drawing a smile from Derek.
"You have great instincts," Derek said, as the shadow that attacked Oren joined his shadow. He appeared behind Oren with his hand Oren's neck, sweat dripped from Oren's face.
"Onto to the next one" Derek said, after a few more people had gone, it was over with nobody managing to obtain any points.
"Since, none of you completed the trial, I will give points based on your skill shown and strength" Derek said, he displayed a rank Oren searching for his name finally saw his name at number 25 to his disappointment.
"My skills are way behind the rest, focusing mostly on magic, even though my physical abilities are not bad. My skills with a scythe are very mediocre" Oren thought, as he snapped back to normal, people had already begun leaving the training hall.
Oren found his way to the cafeteria. He grabbed his food that contained rations, found an empty seat and chowed down.
"Normal school classes, next" Oren thought, rolled his eyes, finishing his dish.
"Awful," He remarked, pushing the empty tray aside. He clicked the watch, and he was still on top in the students rankings.
"I need to find a way to get money unless I'm going to eat this slop for a long time." Oren said, standing up and began heading to the first class he was going to have, arriving there before time following the directions the watch gave him. Oren arrived in the class with no one else there, taking a seat in the first row, laying his head on the table, taking a quick nap. People began flooding into the class, but it didn't bother Oren a few minutes later, the siren sounded, signalling the start of the school period.
Oren raised his head slowly, cleaning the drool off the side of his mouth, and his teacher was already sitting in her seat.
"Good morning students, I'm your homeroom teacher Miss Rose" She said, with a cute smile on her beautiful face with a tight black gown fitted on her awesome body. Someone raised their hand up to ask a question, she gave a nod.
"Miss rose, as in the death rose of the dark nix sect" The boy said, she looked at him, smiled and looked away.
"That's my old life and let's get straight into it ". She said, and began handing everyone tablets.
"This is what you will be using for your school work. I'll be teaching you the history of the nix sect" She said, Oren heard this and began putting full attention to everything she uttered. Quickly, the school day was over and Oren headed for his dorm and continued reading on the nix books until it was time for dinner. He quickly ate and went to the training hall reserved for students who wanted to train alone. Oren suddenly turned back as he felt eyes on him, he noticed someone's head move back into the corner.
"I have seen you just come out" Oren said, the person walked out it was Kayla Heath.
"Why are you following me, do you like me" Oren asked, staring at her face turning red a little.
"No…. No… No!!, I'm just curious about your powers. How are you so strong at this age" Kayla asked.
"I don't know, training or maybe you guys are weak" Oren answered, with an awkward look on his face as he talked.
"You can't be serious, the most intense training can't make you a five-star mage at twelve," Kayla said, looking at Oren's skinny body.
"What do you want for me because I'm certain this isn't what you are looking for" Oren retorted, with a blatant look.
"Yes, I want to spar with you" Kayla said.
"Okay, sure..... now" Oren replied, Kayla nodded, and they walked into the training hall standing on opposite sides.
"How strong is a five-star mage" Kayla muttered, here eyes glowed.